For contractors
You've paid for a lead before.
This isn't one.
Nobody sold you this project, because it was never for sale. The homeowner pays us once, before you hear from us, and you pay nothing — not per lead, not for placement, not a cut of the job.
We know what the last one was like
One
You paid for a lead sold four times
Forty dollars for a phone number that three of your competitors bought the same morning. By the time you call, they've spoken to two people and stopped answering.
Two
You drove out and nobody was home
Half an hour each way for an appointment the homeowner half-remembered agreeing to. Here, the visit is scheduled against windows they picked and confirmed before you set off.
Three
You lost to a worse bid
You priced the decking because it needs doing. The other guy didn't mention it. Yours looked expensive, his looked competitive, and nobody explained the difference to the homeowner.
What's actually different
The homeowner already paid. Nobody pays for this on a project they're idly curious about. Before you hear from us, someone has described the job, answered questions about it, and put money behind getting it quoted properly. You still have to go and look at it — but you're looking at a real one.
You're one of a short list, not one of forty, and not one of however many bought the same lead that morning. The shortlist is a fixed size, and nobody can pay to be added to it or moved up it.
Your bid gets read on its merits. Every quote is checked against the same list, so a bid that includes the decking is compared against one that quietly doesn't. That's the failure mode this whole thing exists to fix, and it's the one that costs you jobs you should have won.
From where you sit
| Lead-gen sites | QuoteVet | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | Per lead, win or lose | Nothing, ever |
| Who else has it | Whoever bought it | A short, fixed list |
| Homeowner intent | Filled in a form | Paid to be here |
| How bids compare | On price, if at all | Against the same checklist |
| Buying position | Possible | Not for sale |
We'll show you the marking scheme
No lead-gen site tells you how your bid is judged, because on those sites it mostly isn't. Here it is in full. None of it is a trick, and a contractor who already writes quotes this way does well out of it without changing anything.
Fig. 11 — How your quote is read
Five sections. This is the checklist, in full.
Fig. 11 — the evaluation, in the open
Every quote is read against these five sections. We show contractors the whole checklist, because a bid that clears it wins on merit rather than on being the lowest number.10
Header and identity
Put this inLegal business name, licence number, and a date the quote expires. Thirty seconds of work, and it separates you from whoever is operating out of a truck this month.
Why it helps youA trade name with no entity behind it reads as risk even when it isn't. If your licence is current, put the number on the page — you've already done the hard part.
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Scope of work
Put this inQuantities, materials by name, and who pulls the permit. This is the section that wins jobs for people who aren't the cheapest.
Why it helps youThree lines for a five-figure job is the most common reason a good contractor loses to a worse one. A homeowner can't tell you included the decking if you didn't write it down.
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Allowances
Put this inAny line that budgets an amount rather than pricing the work — with a unit rate attached, so everyone knows what happens if it runs over.
Why it helps youAllowances are legitimate and we treat them that way. What gets flagged is an allowance with no rate behind it, because then nobody can price the overage until the invoice lands.
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Exclusions
Put this inWhat you're explicitly not doing. Disposal, permits, painting, interior finish, anything behind a wall nobody has opened yet.
Why it helps youContractors leave this out because it feels negative. It reads as the opposite. A bid with no exclusions looks unconsidered, and it's the fastest route to an argument at the end of a job you did well.
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Price and terms
Put this inPayment schedule, warranty period, deposit. Some states cap what can be asked up front, and staying inside your state’s limit is worth saying out loud.
Why it helps youThe number at the bottom is the least informative part of the page, and it isn't what decides this. A clear quote at a fair price beats a vague one at a lower price — which is the entire reason this service exists.
We don't rank you against other bids on price alone, and we don't tell the homeowner which quote to take. What we do is make sure the quotes in front of them describe the same scope — which is the thing that normally goes wrong for the contractor who priced the job honestly.
How to do well here
None of this is a rule with a penalty attached. It's just what separates the contractors who win work through us from the ones who don't.
Answer the first contact
Whoever responds first is often out looking at the job while the others are still deciding whether to call back. Speed matters more here than it probably should, and it's the cheapest advantage available to you.
Send an itemised quote
A number in a text message can't be compared against anything, so it tends to lose to a written bid that's actually higher. Quantities, materials, exclusions, terms. This is the single biggest lever you have.
Say no out loud
If a job isn't right for you, tell us. It costs you nothing and we stop chasing you about it. Going quiet is the only thing here that really counts against you, because it leaves a homeowner waiting on a quote that was never coming.
Keep your web presence current
Less obvious, and it matters more than you'd think. We build shortlists from public business information, so a dead number on an old listing, a site nobody has touched in four years, or an inbox nobody reads is enough for us to never reach you — or to drop you as unverifiable before anyone sees your name.
Answer the credential questions plainly
We ask about your state licence, general liability insurance, workers comp, and whether the crew on site will be subcontracted. We record what you tell us and show it to the homeowner. Clear answers help you. Dodging gets recorded too, and it caps your credentials score.
Turn up in the window
Showing up when you said you would is recorded on every project, and over time it's most of what reputation here is built from.
Early access — straight with you
We're new, and we're not going to pretend there's a flood of work here yet. Volume is modest and it will be for a while.
What we can tell you is that what we do send is real: a scoped project from a homeowner who has already paid to be serious about it, and a shortlist you weren't charged to be on.
There's nothing to sign up for. We find contractors from public business listings and get in touch when a homeowner's project matches what you do. Most of that contact is by email.
Some outbound calls are placed by an automated scheduling assistant, which says so at the start and that the call is recorded. If you'd rather not be recorded, say so and we’ll end the call and carry on by email. If you'd specifically prefer to be reached by phone, tell us here — otherwise email is the default and you don't need to do anything.
Questions: support@quotevet.com. And if you'd rather we didn't contact you at all, say so once and we won't again.